Estuarine habitats, and the fish assemblages associated with them, are potentially impacted
upon by many anthropogenic influences which can have a direct influence on the food …

As humans continue to influence the quantity, timing, and quality of freshwater input to
estuaries, it is becoming increasingly common for policies to be enacted that mandate the …

The form, hydrology and functioning of rivers worldwide have been increasingly modified by
a range of human activities. The impacts of these changes on the fish faunas of rivers need …

This review presents a synopsis of the impacts of freshwater flow on fisheries production in
estuarine and coastal systems, with particular emphasis on regional examples from eastern …

In the last decades, the need to develop biotic metrics that best represent the ecological
quality and biotic integrity of a given environment has been discussed. Functional …

Estuaries and lagoons are especially affected by anthropogenic pressures. This has
resulted in symptoms of degradation including water quality impairment and loss of aquatic …

The assessment of water quality has changed markedly worldwide over the last years,
especially in Europe due to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive. Fish was …

Biotic indices have become key assessment tools in most recent national and trans-national
policies aimed at improving the quality of coastal waters and the integrity of their associated …

The events related to the Messinian salinity crisis are among the most deeply investigated of
Earth's history. According to the current hypothesis of Neogene paleogeographic evolution …

The fish and macro-crustacean community of the Vaccarès lagoon (Rhône River delta,
South France) was sampled monthly from 1993 to 2002. The lagoon salinity shifted from 15 …